Letter: Answer to bigotry is understanding

Posted: February 28, 2014 - 5:35pm

I want to commend Judi Classen for her comments in the Feb. 14 article published in The Topeka Capital-Journal about House Bill 2453. With all the controversy surrounding this matter, there are a lot of accusations of bigotry being thrown around.

Bigotry involves intolerance toward another person’s belief. Unless we approach the issues that divide us with an understanding mind and a loving heart, they remain unsolvable.

We need to realize that the loundest noise comes from the most extreme position on both sides of any issue, but the solution is usually forged in the quiet middle ground.

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The left has never understood the bigotry knife cuts both ways. They would never sit down to discuss the concerns people have with abortion, homosexuality or illegal immigration. You can't talk to someone you hate for their beliefs.

None of this would be Happening if the gays would have been tolerant of the Christians belief's,, said "thanks anyway"and just moved on to someone that would be Glad to do Business with them.
and there are plenty that would!

no,,
they hadda turn around and SUE them outta existence.
that's not very tolerant.

a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group).

You are free to hold any opinion that suits your needs or dogma but the line gets drawn when you try to make those bigoted beliefs/opinions the law.

In the USA its a very clear line guys.

By definition the groups that hate gays and lesbians are bigots.

If I dislike you FOR YOUR HATRED that is not being a bigot. I may in fact like and/or tolerate you and your groups of haters while at the same time putting you down for your hatred and that does not make me a bigot.

Get over yourself.

Hating gays because they are gay is a pure form of bigotry. People who hate others that are of a different race than they are fit into a dual definition, bigot and racist but both categories are based on the same hatred for a specific race or group.

If I said I hate all Christians I would be a bigot but if I say I hate those Christians that are bigoted towards gays, knowing full well that there are millions of good American Christians that do not hate gays then by definition I am not a bigot; I just hate the haters.

You children seem to be confused and are incorrectly trying to lay the guilt that is inside of you for your blanket hatred on others that do not in any way reflect the type of hatred that you display.

Really so long as your business is not a crucial one (fire fighter, police, doctor, nurse or government employee) you should not be forced to business with anyone you don't want to.

So if someone decides not to do business with you you also have some options since we are in a "free country".
options like
1: Take your business somewhere else.
2: Picket outside said business.
3: Spread awareness that said person/group refused to do business with you for whatever reason.

Doing these ^ 3 things in today's world should be more then enough to get one of the following to happen
1: The person/group changes their minds due to lack of business cutting into their profits
or
2: The person holds firm to their beliefs causing a opening in the market which someone else can fill thus offering you new places to shop.

Sadly more people would realize this & stop trying to erode what freedoms we have left if not for the sh!tty public education our country has today which turns out countless zombies wanting more & more handed to them.
Or as the left kindly refers to them "Useful Idiots"

According to the author of this letter:
"Bigotry involves intolerance toward another person’s belief. Unless we approach the issues that divide us with an understanding mind and a loving heart, they remain unsolvable."
With this definition our leader of this country is a bigot.

Maybe that's it. As a heterosexual I do not understand how two men or two women can be attracted to each other in that way. The parts don't fit so I don't understand it.

I'm not a bigot. Had God or evolution meant for it to be that way, there would have been means for them to reproduce. That's what sex is supposed to be for. Yeah, I know, no one anymore really thinks that way about it, but that's true.

I guess it does explain your extreme bitterness toward Christians but I assure you that I saw actual discrimination by those of muslim faith while deployed overseas. You make comments referencing the holocaust like not being able to buy a wedding cake from a Christian bakery, not getting a Christian photographer to support a gay wedding, or even the sad situation in Alabama where the gay spouse was not given the same consideration as a heterosexual spouse are some how equivalent......really?!?

Oh, and good luck trying to prove my real reason for not providing services or employment to someone because I don't like their choices. Trust me, they'll never be able to prove it enough to get me into court!

the rich young ruler? Did Christ hate the rich man in Hades? Was He an adulterophobe? A greedophobe? IF those who take a stand against homosexuality are in the wrong, what is to be gained in reverse "discrimination"? dfw- bitterness cause a blindness of the soul. Why let those who take such a stand own you? Are you being physically harmed by them or self? Bitterness of spirit is a killer. It's tough to diagnose and not likely recognized as a cause of death in coroner's reports. Heart attacks, overdoses, peptic ulcers, massive strokes, alcohol poisoning, etc. are easier for "lay folk" to understand.
Most folk who take such a stand don't hate anyone. Nor are they afraid. Some do, some hope to bring about a "change of heart". I see it as overboard in some cases, but I'm me. Many churches "shun". The Word gives specific instructions on how. (1 Cor. 5, Gal 6). The idea being that if one wants a relationship according to the Word and their behavior is outside what is according to said they, not the congregation must change behavior. Or they may leave. Sometimes the individual is right and the church is wrong that's why Christ gave us Matthew 18. A Christian's first allegiance is to Christ, not the Constitution. But maybe Article 1 was written with such in mind. The two can coincide, but as prophesied there will be a time. Many Pharaohs didn't understand. Nebuchadnezzar, in the book of Daniel, came to understand. Nero, Caligula never got it.
Christ drew a line(John 17:9ff). In our present day thought He'd be a bigot, but we're not Christ.

We all saw what became of Hitler.
look what became Of some of the worst murdering dictators in the last century to the present.
where are they now??

will Putin Fall to the Same fate as Nero?
Pilot??
Caligula???

I can only speak for myself but I'm certain the others here will agree.
We would Never stand by and allow the likes of those two or anyone else to throw you or anyone in the LGBT community into camps and crematoria-mach schnell.

no Way!
because I love you all!

I know i make silly jokes and I'll make fun of anyone!
I'm basically a fool!

but the men and women that Reject Gods love are greater fools that I.
and the man that loves only himself
will die a lonely fools death!